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The role of gender in interracial divorce dynamics, found in social studies by Jenifer L. Bratter and Rosalind B. King, was highlighted when examining marital instability among Black/White unions. [25] White wife/Black husband marriages show twice the divorce rate of White wife/White husband couples by the 10th year of marriage, [25] whereas ...
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South is a nonfiction history book by Stephanie Jones-Rogers. They Were Her Property is "the first extensive study of the role of Southern white women in the plantation economy and slave-market system" and disputes conventional wisdom that white women played a passive or minimal role in slaveholding.
Interracial marriage. A multiracial European family walking in the park. Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities . In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid -era South Africa as miscegenation.
One Thousand White Women. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (published by St. Martin's Press in 1998) is the first novel by journalist Jim Fergus. The novel is written as a series of journals chronicling the fictitious adventures of "J. Will Dodd's" ostensibly real ancestor in an imagined "Brides for Indians" program of the ...
By 1830, there were 3,775 black (including mixed-race) slaveholders in the South who owned a total of 12,760 slaves, which was a small percentage of a total of over two million slaves then held in the South. [ 5] 80% of the black slaveholders were located in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. However, The first "documented slave ...
The PlayStation 3 version of the game includes a regional lockout, allowing the game to be played only if the game's region matches the console region, despite the fact that PlayStation 3 games are normally region-free, leading to a massive fan outrage. [195] [196] The game's sequel, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax however, is region-free. [197] 2013 ...
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James G. Birney (1792–1857), an attorney and planter who freed his slaves and became an abolitionist. [ 39] James Blair ( c. 1788 –1841), British MP who owned sugar plantations in Demerara. [ 40] Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), wealthy slave owner who became a Latin American independence leader and eventually an abolitionist.